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History of Peter K. Lehman and Elizabeth A. Weaver and Their Descendants
Descendants and family of David Yoder Lehman (1842-1928). Family lived at various times in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ontario and Michigan. Includes the related families of Weaver (Weber), Gingrich, and others.
The Political Ecology of Bananas
This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere_capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment relationships, Lawrence Grossman provides a new perspective on the history and contemporary trajectory of the Windward Islands banana industry. He reveals in rich detail the myriad impacts of banana production on the peasant laborers of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Grossman challenges the conventional wisdom on three interrelated issues central to contract fa...
The Forest Resources of St. Vincent, West Indies
Forest vegetation covers 13,000 ha or 38 percent of the land surface of St. Vincent Island. More than half of the forest area is successional, and there are substantial areas of palm, dwarf, and dry scrub forests. Nearly 5 percent of the land area is composed of mature, mostly undisturbed primary forest. Inga vera, licania ternatentis, Dacryodes excelsa, and Cecropia peltata are common tree species in natural forests. Hibiscus elatus, Pinus caribaea, and Swietenia macrophylla are tree species that have been planted in St. Vincent. Pinus caribaea has attained the best growth rates.
